30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

“Fear, my old friend! What are
you doing here again? Do you want to warn me or do you want
to paralyze me? What’s your game?”
What are you afraid of? Failure? Success? Making mistakes?
Taking the wrong decisions? Do as Susan Jeffers says: “Feel the
fear and do it anyway.” If you want to reach new territories, you have
to take some risks and continuously do things that you are afraid of.
Mistakes don’t matter as long as you learn from them and don’t
make the same mistakes over and over again. The same goes for
decisions—by the way not taking a decision or procrastinating is also
a decision.
Answer the following questions in your workbook or journal:
1) What is stopping you from living the life you want to live?
2) What excuses are you making for justifying staying where you
are?
3) What’s the worst thing that can happen if you do what you are
afraid of doing?

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Eliminate everything that annoys you
Great things are done by a series
of small things brought together.
—VINCENT VAN GOGH
It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out.
It’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
—ROBERT W. SERVICE
This is usually one of the first exercises I do with my coaching
clients. 
Everything that annoys you drains your energy.
In
coaching, we call it tolerations
.
For example, a missing button on
your favorite shirt, the dirty shower curtain, a kitchen cupboard that
doesn’t close, your boss micromanaging you, money owed to you, a
disorganized guest room, broken tools, a messy and disorganized
desk, clothes that don’t fit any more, etc. are tolerations. For as long
as you don’t fix them, they keep draining your energy. As soon as
you eliminate them, you will have more energy to concentrate on the
things that move you forward.
So your exercise will be to make a list of all the things that annoy
you: